A typical Cimarron home is worth roughly $203,000
Builders were permitted 8 new homes in 2025.
What kind of housing town is Cimarron?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
A typical home costs 2.5 years of income
Less than across Kansas (3.4 years). Try your own numbers below.
That covers a typical Cimarron home, with $88K to spare.
A two-bedroom rents for about $930 a month here, $400 less than owning.
An estimate, not a loan offer: payments of up to 28% of income, a 30-year fixed loan, Cimarron’s typical property tax (1.61% of value a year, from the Census) and insurance of about 0.35%. Mortgage insurance, HOA fees and other debts aren’t included.
A two-bedroom rents for about $930
Renters already here pay a median of $793, so moving in tends to cost more than staying put.
Fair Market Rent a month, utilities included
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fair Market Rents by ZIP code (Finney County, KS): the 40th-percentile rent plus utilities for a standard unit. Median rent and renters: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey.
8 new homes permitted in 2025
Builders were permitted 8 new homes in Cimarron in 2025, all single-family houses, worth about $2.7 million to build. That's 4.1 per 1,000 residents, about the pace of Kansas as a whole. Over the past 10 years, Cimarron has permitted 25 homes in all.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses, Cimarron's population fell by 203 even though 61 new homes were permitted. Homes are holding fewer people: households are getting smaller, or more homes are used part of the year. Across Kansas: 1.1 new residents per new home.
Every year as a table
| Year | New homes | Single-family | 2+ per building | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Aug) | 4 | 4 | 0 | $1.4 million |
| 2025 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $2.7 million |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $350,000 |
| 2022 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $200,000 |
| 2021 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $837,000 |
| 2020 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $813,000 |
| 2019 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $277,000 |
| 2018 | 3 | 3 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $150,000 |
| 2016 | 3 | 1 | 2 | $725,000 |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2014 | 8 | 8 | 0 | $1.4 million |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| 2012 | 24 | 4 | 20 | $2.8 million |
| 2011 | 2 | 2 | 0 | $390,000 |
| 2010 | 18 | 1 | 17 | $2.5 million |
| 2009 | 4 | 2 | 2 | $781,000 |
| 2008 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $648,000 |
| 2007 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $2 million |
| 2006 | 6 | 4 | 2 | $1.1 million |
| 2005 | 4 | 4 | 0 | $490,000 |
| 2004 | 20 | 20 | 0 | $2 million |
| 2003 | 19 | 19 | 0 | $1.9 million |
| 2002 | 18 | 18 | 0 | $1.8 million |
| 2001 | 18 | 18 | 0 | $1.8 million |
| 2000 | 5 | 5 | 0 | $468,000 |
Homes authorized by building permits, counted in the year the permit was issued. U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey.
67% of Cimarron households own their home
Half of Cimarron’s homes were built before 1973.
Kansas: 67% own.
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024.
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Home values: Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI), Zillow Research. Sales, days on market and supply: Redfin Data Center. Income, ownership, taxes and rent: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. New homes: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey. Fair Market Rents: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Listings link to their publishers. The calculator is an estimate, not a loan offer.